DTV receiving system and method of processing DTV signal

• US 7,940,855 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2007
• Issued: 05/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Byoung Gill, Lee, Hyoung Gon, Choi, In Hwan, Kim, Jong Moon, Song, Won Gyu, Kwak, Kook Yeon, Kim, Jin Woo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bocure; Tesfaldet
• Assistant Examiner(s): Williams; Lawrence B
• Application Number:
  US11/774,546
• Publication Number:
  US 20080239161A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,404 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240, 375/240.01, 375/240.18, 375/240.24, 375/260, 375/265, 375/321, 375/340, 375/341, 375/350, 375/259, 375/295, 375/355, 375/377, 370/485, 370/486, 370/487, 348/14.02, 348/21, 348/607, 348/723, 348725-726, 348/729, 348/E5.077, 386/46, 386 65- 66, 386/71, 386 84- 85, 386/88, 386/98, 714/755, 714/776, 714/E11.001, 714761-762
• US Class Current: 375/295
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/006 Trellis-coded modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0065 Serial concatenated codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/007 Unequal error protection for format H04L1/0078; for codes per se H03M13/35
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0071 Use of interleaving interleaving per se H03M13/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/066 Carrier recovery circuits H04L27/2271 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2272 using phase locked loops H04L27/2273 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/027 extracting the synchronising or clock signal from the received signal spectrum, e.g. by using a resonant or bandpass circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/042 Detectors therefor, e.g. correlators, state machines digital correlators in general G06F17/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2383 Channel coding or modulation of digital bit-stream, e.g. QPSK modulation arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received by adapting the channel coding H04L1/0009; analogue front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4382 Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/455 Demodulation-circuits

Abstract

A digital broadcast transmitter and a method of processing a DTV signal in the digital broadcast transmitter are disclosed. The digital broadcast transmitter includes a pre-processor, a first multiplexer, a post-processor, and a second multiplexer. The pre-processor includes a first interleaver, a group formatter, and a packer formatter. The first interleaver interleaves symbols corresponding to mobile service data. The group formatter maps data corresponding to the interleaved symbols into at least one region of a data group and adds place holders for main service data and non-systematic RS parity data to the data group. The packet formatter removes the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data, and generates mobile service data packets having data in the data group in which the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data are removed.

Claims

1. A digital broadcast transmitter, comprising:

a pre-processor configured to pre-process mobile service data, wherein the pre-processor comprises;

a first interleaver configured to interleave symbols corresponding to the mobile service data according to the following equation;

P(i)={S×

i×

(i+1)/2} mod L,

wherein 0≦

i≦

L−

1, L≦

K, L=2ⁿ, n and S are integers, and K is a number of symbols being inputted to the first interleaver,

a group formatter configured to map data corresponding to the interleaved symbols into at least one region of a data group and add place holders for main service data and non-systematic RS parity data to the data group, and

a packet formatter configured to remove the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data after deinterleaving the data group in a data deinterleaver, and to generate mobile service data packets having data in the data group in which the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data are removed, wherein the packet formatter is the last process in the pre-processor;

a first multiplexer configured to multiplex the mobile service data packets with main service data packets having the main service data;

a post-processor configured to post-process data in the multiplexed data packets; and

a second multiplexer configured to multiplex the post-processed data with field synchronization data and segment synchronization data.

3. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the group formatter further adds place holders for MPEG header data to the group and the packet formatter further replaces the place holders for the MPEG header data with the MPEG header data having a packet identifier (PID).

4. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 3, wherein the post-processor includes a data randomizer, a systematic/non-systematic RS encoder, a second interleaver, a parity replacer, a non-systematic RS encoder, and a trellis encoder.

6. The digital broadcast transmitter of claim 1, wherein the pre-processor further comprises:

a first encoder configured to generate a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame by adding RS parity data at bottom ends of columns of an RS frame payload having a size of (187*N)-byte and by adding Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) data at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data, the RS frame payload comprising the mobile service data, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; and

a second encoder configured to encode the RS frame at a coding rate of 1/H, wherein H is an integer greater than 1.

2. A method of processing a DTV signal in a digital broadcast transmitter, comprising:

pre-processing mobile service data in a pre-processor, wherein the pre-processing comprises;

interleaving, by a first interleaver, symbols corresponding to the mobile service data according to the following equation;

P(i)={S×

i×

(i+1)/2} mod L,

wherein 0≦

i≦

L−

1, L≦

K, L=2ⁿ, n and S are integers, and K is a number of symbols being inputted to the first interleaver,

mapping data corresponding to the interleaved symbols into at least one region of a data group and adding place holders for main service data and non-systematic RS parity data to the data group,

deinterleaving the data group, and

removing the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data from the deinterleaved data group and generating mobile service data packets having data in the data group in which the place holders for the main service data and the non-systematic RS parity data are removed;

firstly multiplexing the mobile service data packets with main service data packets having the main service data;

post-processing data in the multiplexed data packets; and

secondly multiplexing the post-processed data with field synchronization data and segment synchronization data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of adding the place holders comprises adding place holders for MPEG header data and the step of removing the place holders comprises replacing the place holders for the MPEG header data with the MPEG header data having a PID.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the pre-processing further comprises:

generating a Reed-Solomon (RS) frame by adding RS parity data at bottom ends of columns of an RS frame payload having a size of (187*N)-byte and by adding Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) data at right ends of rows of the RS frame payload including the RS parity data, the RS frame payload comprising the mobile service data, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; and

encoding the RS frame at a coding rate of 1/H, wherein H is an integer greater than 1.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the post-processing comprises:

interleaving the data in the multiplexed data packets.